ECPI : A&P: CHAPTER 12 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers

ECPI : A&P: CHAPTER 12 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Sensation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Brain becomes aware of sensory information



Sensory Receptors: - CORRECT ANSWER - How you detect a change



How are sensations sent to the brain? - CORRECT ANSWER - Action potential



Perception: - CORRECT ANSWER - The way the brain interprets the sensory information
(the sensations received)


Projection: - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability of brain to localize where the stimulate is
happening
- Ex: someone touches your arm with your eyes closed and you can tell your arm is being
touched.


Sensory Adaptation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Brain's ability to ignore a stimulus
- Smelling/tasting very liable to sensory adaptation
- Ex: getting used to a bad smell where you don't smell it's bad anymore


Exoreceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Any sensation that comes from external
environment
Ex: pain, touch, temperature


Interoceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Any sensation that comes from inside the
body
- Ex: Changes in viscera (internal organs of body)

, Proprioceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Pressure/position



Properties of General Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Senses with small, widespread
sensory receptors, associated with skin, muscles, joints, viscera.


Touch & Pressure Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Free nerve endings
- Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors
- Pacinian Corpuscles


Free Nerve Endings: - CORRECT ANSWER - For pain and temperature



Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors: - CORRECT ANSWER - Touch sensation
- Merkel is in epidermis


Pacinian Corpuscles: - CORRECT ANSWER - For pressure, vibrations
- In dermis


Muscle Spindles: - CORRECT ANSWER - Proreceptors of muscles



Gustation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Sense of taste



Properties of Special Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - - in the head


- Smell: olfactory nerves in nasal cavity
- Taste: taste buds in oral cavity
- Hearing & equilibrium: inner ears
- Sight: eyes